Lecture Me

Press release

For Immediate Release:

March 14, 2016

Contact:

George von Dassow, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology,

Phone: (541) 888-2581 ext: 337   email: dassow@uoregon.edu

OIMB web site www.oimb.uoregon.edu

April 1, 2016  7 pm

Public Lecture at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology

Bayard McConnaughey Memorial Lecture 

“Caribbean Coral Reefs: The Oregon Connection”

by Dr. Isabelle Côté, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC)

The talk will be held in the OIMB Boathouse Auditorium. 

Park at OIMB and walk down Boat Basin Drive past the Coast Guard housing.

Information:

Isabelle Côté studied at McGill University in Montreal, the University of Alberta, and the University of Toronto, then spent 15 years in the UK before returning to her native Canada in 2005. Her research group pioneered meta-analyses of large datasets to reconstruct pathways of ecological change on coral reefs, measure the global effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) in protecting fish and their habitats, and assess the impacts of multiple stressors on natural ecosystems. More recently, she has turned her attention to marine invasive species – measuring their impact, predicting their spread and how best to control them. Although much of her work is on tropical habitats, she is actively involved in MPA research and establishment on the coast of British Columbia. She was awarded the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology of the Zoological Society of London in 2009, for contributions of fundamental science to the conservation of animal species and habitats, and became a Leopold Leadership fellow in 2015.